Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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The Future Was Color

by Patrick Nathan

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The 16 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2024: Them

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The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

The Sunshine Place
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Idlewild Idlewild
Clean Slate
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Sly Thom Zimny
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Liars Sarah Manguso
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward

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